Terry Sterrenberg, MSW, Licensed Social Worker, is a GottmanCertified Couples clinician and workshop leader. His expertise is helping couples bring joy and friendship into their relationship through understanding and using effective, research-based relationship strategies.
Terry is the co-founder of Family Interplay Education and has over 25 years of counseling experience helping individuals, couples and families with issues such as depression, coping with grief and loss, parenting issues, premarital relationship enrichment, marital difficulties, job related issues and adult adjustment concerns.
His specialty is enhancing couple relationships, using a positive, dynamic, educational approach. He uses a variety of techniques developed by John Gottman and others to teach skills. His goal is for clients to be able to use these skills as a matter of course in their daily lives.
Terry discovered a passion for counseling during 10 years in the pastoral ministry. Then he attended the University of Calgary and received his Masters of Social Work in 1989. He is part of the group of clinicians formed in 1999 by John and Julie Gottman, and has been participating in training and consultation with the Gottman Institute since that time. He has been married for over 25 years to Laurie Simons, MA LMHC, and together they have raised two sons.
